Legal blackmail: comprehensive look at tactics of copyright bounty-hunters – Boing Boing

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Legal blackmail: comprehensive look at tactics of copyright bounty-hunters

Earlier this month, a concerted denial of service attack by 4chan members against the UK law firm ACS:Law resulted in the disclosure of an enormous trove of internal emails from the firm. The mail …

via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/29/legal-blackmail-comp.html

The best analysis of the ACS emails to date comes from this long, investigative piece by Ars Technica’s Nate Anderson, who assembles the huge corpus of emails into a coherent narrative explaining how ACS operates, with emphasis on the unethical behavior that made it the most hated law firm in the UK. If you only read one story about “anti-piracy” operations, read this one.

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